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bobsleigh ((n.))
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
a sleigh made up of one or more (usually two) double-runnered sections called bobs, having a deck or box mounted on top, long associated with lumbering operations and now also used in tractor trains in the North.
Quotations
1853
A large-sized mast, after having been loaded on a bob sleigh, requires from twelve to sixteen span of horses or oxen to draw it. . . .
1961
. . . her son-in-law took his wife in to have a baby in Crocus, and he made it all right with a bob-sleigh and team.
2n.
one of the double-runnered sections of a bobsleigh.
See: bob
Quotations
1873
C. W. Cowan will sell by public auction . . . a good span of working horses, also a pair of bob sleighs.
1961
Logs were loaded on sleighs (two bobsleighs loosely joined) and hauled to the roll-way.
3n.
a smaller sleigh having runners and used for coasting and capable of carrying a number of passengers.
See: bobsled(def. 2)
Quotations
1958
Special events . . . include . . . bobsleigh races. . . .
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